Chapter Thirty-Eight: Five Stages of the Examination, Each Shows Its Ability (II)

Laoshan mushroom stewed chicken is one of the representative dishes of Qingdao, which is made by using local small roosters within a year and stewed in broth.

Due to these special climate and water quality conditions in Laoshan area, Laoshan pine mushroom has the quality of soft and smooth entrance, and the flavor is unique, which can be regarded as the best quality of mushrooms, and only a few strains can be compared with it.

Chicken and Laoshan mushrooms are stewed together, it is needless to say that the freshness is needless to say, the chicken entrance is fresh and tender, the Laoshan mushrooms are smooth, and the soup is thick and fresh.

This is also the cleverness of Qian Siduan - using the unique taste of regional ingredients to add points to his own dishes.

Laoshan mushroom stewed chicken is a small rooster, the kitchen association has been killed in advance to bloodletting, but the internal organs and other organs have not been treated, after Qian Siduan selected the ingredients, quickly cut a knife along the chicken belly, skillfully take out the internal organs and wash the chicken body, quickly chop the chicken into small pieces, and blanch it in water.

In the audience, Li Yu looked at these steps of Qian Siduan, and couldn't help nodding slightly, whether it was the knife of the abdomen, or the next cleaning of internal organs and cutting, Qian Siduan did it perfectly.

The strength and angle of the knife, the order of internal organ processing, this requires a lot of practice to master, and the ordinary chef of a five-star hotel in his last life is almost at this level.

You must know that it has only been a year since the ban on meat has been lifted, so it can be seen that Qian Siduan must have put a lot of effort into his daily life.

Then Li Yu looked at Yang Siduan again, his seat was in the third row of the audience, and he didn't need to watch the live broadcast screen to see the situation in the arena.

At this time, Yang Siduan had already fished out his hooves through the water and was about to make the most important knife.

In yesterday's 'special training', Yang Siduan repeated this knife more than 100 times.

This knife needs to be cut along the seam of the hoof bone, straight to the bottom, there can be no slightest mistake, once it is not cut well, it will greatly affect the feeding area of the hoof, and the finished product will be salty and uneven, which will greatly affect the taste of the finished dish.

The judges in the first row are all veterans, and once this kind of mistake occurs, it can almost be said that the fifth stage is hopeless.

But then again, if this knife is cut well, Yang Siduan only needs to check the time on the card table next, after all, the other main step - the preparation of the sauce and the mixing ratio of various materials have long been memorized by Yang Siduan.

Before Li Yu was reborn, the old chef of Shucheng called this knife "heaven and earth line", the top hoof making master, the tip of the knife can perfectly fit the bone seam, so that the internal material area of the hoof reaches the extreme.

As long as Yang Siduan's knife does not make mistakes, this dish can reach at least forty-five points, that is, the passing line of the fifth section, as for whether it can beat the scores of other chefs, it depends on Yang Siduan's chance.

In yesterday's 'special training', Yang Siduan's pass rate was about 85 percent, not too high and not too low, considering the pressure of today's field, the success rate is afraid to be reduced by a few points.

Next to the stove, although Yang Siduan's face was very calm, his mind was already agitated.

He was born in an ordinary family, he entered the industry 33 years ago, and was promoted to the 4th stage chef 12 years ago, but at that time, the meat was fasted, the chef's salary was not very high, and due to several investment failures, he was even in debt before the meat ban was lifted.

It wasn't until a year ago, when the ban on meat was lifted and the gastronomic revival arrived, that the chef's worth and wages continued to rise.

After Zhao Jing acquired the hoof recipe, he offered a price that made him very excited, which gave him the courage to come to the assessment arena of the fifth section.

Taking a deep breath, Yang Siduan closed his eyes, "That's it, bet on it!

At the moment when he was about to go under the knife, Li Yu's face suddenly appeared in his mind.

In the past few days, he has talked with Li Yu for more than a thousand words, with an understanding of knife work and a control of fire and evil, but what he remembered at this time was a sentence that Li Yu said inadvertently: "Confidence is such a thing... To put it bluntly, it is used to cheer up, and faith is used to hold on, you can have no faith, but you can't use faith as a weight, right? ”

This sentence was like a cold water, which made Yang Siduan shudder suddenly, and soon he found that all the miscellaneous thoughts in his mind had dissipated under this sentence.

Yes, cooking is my faith, kitchen knives are my family, why should I gamble with my faith and my family?

After thinking through all this, Yang Siduan's eyes were extremely transparent, and his hands that were originally trembling calmed down, he glanced at the kitchen knife in his hand, as if responding to him, and a cold light flashed on the blade.

He muttered, "Brother, it's up to you!"

With that, he turned over the hoof with his left hand, and cut down the seam with his right hand, and after a while, he saw a knife edge firmly along the seam of the bone, from top to bottom through the hoof.

Seeing this knife, in the audience, Li Yu looked at Zhao Jing: "Brother Zhao, congratulations." ”

Zhao Jingleng paused for a few seconds, then his face was overjoyed, and he said, "You mean Lao Yang....?"

"That's right, I'm going to call him Yang Wuduan in the future," Li Yu leaned lightly against the audience, his face relaxed.

In his eyes, he could naturally see that Yang Siduan's knife had far exceeded the limit of the fourth stage, and this was not a breakthrough, but an epiphany.

The epiphany won't last long, but it's enough to hold on to the end.

This is a very mysterious state, a bit similar to the so-called 'buff blessing', in this state, Yang Siduan cooked, and the original grade is not low, and the grade of the hoof after the dish is completed, may rush to the sixth grade or even higher!

Regardless of the chef's qualifications, the rules of the competition, and all the other prerequisites, just talking about the level of the dish, this finished dish can even help the chef to hit the sixth dan!

You must know that before that, the highest-level finished dish in the chef world was just a vegetarian dish among the seven dishes, and that dish was a European-style chowder that took several days to make with the cooperation of several European masters.

The real one-man cooking record is the seven-pin set held by several six-dan chefs!

Such a super-grade hoof, if you can't even pass the five-stage Jin exam, then Li Yu will find a piece of tofu and kill him.